July 15

Roberts Office Machines, Monroe Office Supplies, and Rudy's Bar in the 100 block of Key West's Duval Street in the 1960s.

1898 – Private Benjamin Tyler, Troop C, 10th Cavalry, died of TB in the Army Hospital at the Convent.

1901 – The Key West Post Office began delivering mail three times a day. The letter-carriers left the Post Office at 7:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

1939 – The Civilian Conservation Corps camp on West Summerland Key was established. The workers at the camp were beautifying the new highway.

1942 – The merchant vessel Pennsylvania Sun was sunk 54 miles southwest of the Dry Tortugas by the German submarine U-571.

1959 – Because Fidel Castro’s revolutionary regime was coming under increasing communist sway, Naval personnel from Key West were no longer allowed to travel on their own for liberty in Cuba.

1962 – Rudy’s Bar was at 124 Duval Street, occupying the former Key West Custom House building, which had been moved to the location in 1891.

2015 – Checkers fast-food restaurant at 2500 North Roosevelt Boulevard in Key West was torn down to make way for a new Starbucks coffee shop.

Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.

Image: Roberts Office Machines, Monroe Office Supplies, and Rudy's Bar in the 100 block of Key West's Duval Street in the 1960s. Photo from the Monroe County Property Appraiser's office. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.